The Separation of Medicine and Faith?

Just when I thought I heard it all, as far as editorials go, I was once more disproven. If there is one thing for which I can give the Dallas Morning News credit, it is topping one absurd editorial with another. You would think that the DMN editors had a lower-than-usual news day, when this editorial came out . The white-coat method was employed, with a doctor named (what else) Mayo, to convince us that we should abandon faith when it comes to the sacred practice of medicine. After all, we all know that there is never anything experimental in this domain. I could not help but write the following response:

Doctor Mayo's opinion of how faith should not be included in the practice of medicine presents one of the more ridiculous arguments presented yet in the Dallas Morning News. How absurd it is for a doctor, who works in a field which involves a great deal of unknowns, to pretend that he knows for sure that faith is not as good a remedy as those methods from which the term "practice" came. Any honest doctor would admit that the practice of medicine is highly experimental, along with multitudes of patients who have suffered out prolonged medical experiments and guessing games for a cure. The definition of faith is "the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." This argument about faith's inclusion in healing is more about "physician heal thyself." This is a clear case where those doctors who have little or no faith believe that their patients should not have faith as they do not have faith. Now I ask, "How is it that this is not a case of doctors 'pushing' their faith or religion, or the lack thereof, on their patients?" If these physicians have decided that they should throw out all practices, even successful ones, that do not carry the baggage of absolute proof, then, being honest, they would have to toss out at least 80 to 90 percent of the methods used and medicines prescribed today. If anyone disagrees, please step forth with your evidence. Otherwise, let's keep the faith.